313 Quotes by Elizabeth Berg

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    When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?

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    Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.

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    Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the lives of those they live with.

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    As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.

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    I can't decide if I'm a hippie or elegant older woman, a farmer's wife, a crazy person.

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    I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another.

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    The friends in my real life do tend to be smart and funny and creative. I am lucky!

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    Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.

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    I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.

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